Kickstarting: The Thinnest Watch Ever Made, With An E-Ink Display
From Fast Company
January 17, 2013 - 7:45am
The CST-01, a flexible, minimalist timepiece from a pair of Ideo designers, uses an e-ink display and is less than a millimeter thick. As laptops continue to become smaller and smaller rectangles and smartphones, illogically, continue to become bigger and bigger ones, another high-tech product segment is evolving with far less predicability. High-tech gizmos intended to be worn on the body, from the Nike+ FuelBand to the Fitbit One, are already staking out the next frontier of consumer tech, and even though the CST-01 is just a watch--no Internet connectivity, no fancy sensors, no pedometer--its design, and the technologies that make it possible, are worth getting excited about. Read Full Story
January 17, 2013 - 7:45am
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